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Phase Transitions

Thermal Fluctuations Boltzmann Distribution Hybrid States Out-of-Equilibrium Systems Superfluidity Supercritical State First-Order Melting Transition Nucleation Amorphous Materials Leidenfrost Effect Thermal Stability Melting Point Freezing Processes Water Behavior Boiling and Freezing Solidification Processes First-Order Phase Transitions First-Order Phase Transition Freezing Process Ice Properties Supercooling Effects Liquid Films Premelting State Low Temperature Physics Threshold Effects Structural Transitions Superconducting Transitions Sublimation Processes Ice Phases Ice Formation Critical Points Crystallization Frost Formation

Microsecond X-Rays Reveal Ice XXI, a New High-Pressure Form of Ice

KRISS used a rapid dynamic diamond anvil cell with the European XFEL to capture previously unseen crystallization pathways above 2 GPa.

Study Shows Dry Ice Blocks Carve Mars' Sinuous Dune Gullies

Water’s ‘Premelting’ Phase Directly Observed in Nanopores

Simulations Point to Carbon as Trigger for Earth’s Inner-Core Formation

Simulations Pin Ice’s Slipperiness on Dipoles, Not Pressure or Friction

Engineered Metal Surface Uses Meltwater and Surface Tension to Self-Propel Ice Discs

Lab Simulations Show Trapped Vapor Cracks Ice to Propel Cryovolcanism on Europa and Enceladus

Gold Superheated to 14 Times Its Melting Point, Overturning Entropy Catastrophe Limit

Study Reveals Hidden Nano-Crystals in Space Ice